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Guns, Germs and Steel

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond This book started out OK but it quickly got excessively repetitive to me. I couldn't help but wonder if Diamond was just trying to figure out how many ways he could say the same thing. I mean, sheesh, you've already told us once do we really need to hear it again? The book could have been shortened to about 1/3 of it's length if you retracted the redundancy. Each section left me with a feeling of deja vu.

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